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verb

past tense of sequester

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Recent Examples of sequestered
Adjective
Big Brother 4 The first season with a sequestered jury (sorry, Danielle Reyes), Big Brother 4 was also the first installment in which players with a history outside of the house played together. Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026 The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2026 In the second clinical trial, not yet published, 36 sequestered volunteers ate an additional 1,000 calories a day when on the ultraprocessed food diet, according to a midpoint analysis of the data by Hall. Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025 That sentiment is front and center in The Fence, a sequestered and highly theatrical drama set on an African construction site that feels much more like a colonial outpost. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
Patterson's defense attorney Richard Edney made the first ground for their appeal on Wednesday an error that resulted in jury members being sequestered in the same hotel as a police witness and members of the prosecution team. CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 Thorndike said during the voir dire that she has been sequestered since being contacted by Reddington. Melina Khan, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Defense lawyer Richard Edney’s first ground for appeal Wednesday was an error that resulted in jury members being sequestered in the same hotel as a police witness and members of the prosecution team. ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Instead, most of our body fat stores need to be sequestered in adipocytes. Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026 All officers involved have been sequestered and are cooperating, according to Ransom. Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 July 2026 The Reddit thread full of allegations, previously sequestered to fantasy football chatrooms, spread on social media and broke into the mainstream. Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026 The two arresting officers testified they were never sequestered after Ramirez went unresponsive, a failure Brentwood’s police chief attributed to the weeklong delay between the arrest and Ramirez’s death. Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 15 July 2026 This time, the Islanders were sequestered in Las Vegas on The Cromwell's rooftop. Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequestered
Adjective
  • Another isolated shower or storm chance arrives Sunday, mainly across southern Minnesota, but most of the weekend should remain dry.
    Joseph Dames, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Most locations may just experience low overcast, but isolated locations and a handful of observations have reported visibility as low as a quarter of a mile.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This caused the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, which once separated the supercontinents of Laurasia and Gondwana, to shrink.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The researchers also had to build specialized rooftop facilities and integrate their optics, control systems, communications equipment, quantum sources, and detectors so that equipment separated by 21 kilometers could operate as one experiment.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The order also noted that $160 that had been confiscated in the arrest would be forfeited to MVHTTF, which appears to stand for the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Human rights organizations and medical volunteers have said that among the items being confiscated are incubators, ventilators and antibiotics.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 24 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The area, just two hours from London, is still accessible while boasting many impressive, secluded estates to choose from.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Ceremonies can take place on secluded beaches, atop dramatic cliffs overlooking the Pacific or in intimate settings woven into the surrounding landscape.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Not long ago, millions of people like them could have been segregated in institutions.
    August 21, NPR, 21 Aug. 2026
  • While gas stations, sandwich shops and lunch counters were not segregated, facilities with larger dining rooms and restrooms were segregated, the sign said.
    Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 19 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Jack Hosking, the 90-year-old retired former head of a title insurance company, organizes a weekly coffee to discuss political and community issues.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Jack Stuster is a retired behavioral scientist who spent decades studying human performance.
    Katia Riddle, NPR, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • As the ribs cook, the fat and connective tissue (collagen) melt, creating meat that is ultra-juicy and fall-apart tender.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Hold at the furthest apart position for a couple of seconds before slowly bringing your arms back to their starting position.
    Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • Brooklyn has tried to focus retail and service businesses along its Route 6 corridor, but the appeal for new market-rate housing is often strongest in outlying areas of fields, woods or former farmland.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Early Sunday morning, the town website recommended that people in three outlying districts near the border leave the area temporarily because officials couldn’t rule out health risks caused by smoke.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

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“Sequestered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequestered. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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